Chaos erupted in Shreveport today as police officers arrested state GOP delegates who support Ron Paul for the party's 2012 presidential nomination.

The dispute arose after the state party's central committee issued "supplemental rules" earlier this week concerning the delegate selection process. A press release from the Ron Paul campaign this afternoon referred to the 11th hour changes as "illegal rules."

After fights in the Rules Committee Friday, state party chairman opened the convention moving to pass the new rules, when the majority of delegates moved to elect a new convention chair. When Villere refused to yield the dais, the majority elected a new chair and turned their chairs. As this was happening, the Villere faction convinced the Shreveport Police Department to arrest some of the Paul delegates holding microphones for "trespassing."

During the forcible arrests, Shreveport police dislocated the hip of the gentlemen in the video here, identified by the Paul campaign as State Central Commiteeman Henry Herford Jr. of Franklin Parish.

Henry Herford Jr. was elected by an overwhelming majority as new convention chair. Mr. Villere, who had appointed himself the convention chairman, refused to yield. When delegates began turning their chairs around, Mr. Herford rose to call the convention to order. Mr. Villere then convinces police to forceably remove Mr. Herford, who is injured and sent to the hospital! Video at source. (My first post. Member since 2004!)

Not sure. Suspect the woman who wrote the article is a Dem who want to make the GOP Look Stupid. (often not that hard)

I have to admit I am seriously disturbed and mad a the GOP “leadership” for their antics leading up to this point. I am convinced that Mitt Romney is a terrible candidate for President. Not that he is a terrible person, but he is a gun grabbing Big Government Lib in GOP cover.

I hear a train whistle, we are being railroaded and I despise it.

I leave Wednesday for the TX GOP Convention in Ft. Worth. Pray to god that ours is not like this.

I admit I “did” vote for Ron Paul in the primary. Not a candidate of choice, but in my opinion better than Mitt Romney. (Yes, I know some of Ron Pauls positions are nuts)

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posted on 06/05/2012 4:32:40 AM PDT
by Texas Fossil
(Government, even in its best state is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one)

One of the MANY reasons I will not only NOT vote for romney if he gets out of the convention with the nomination, I WILL work AGAINST him and the GOP-e and do EVERYTHING i possibly can to make sure that the GOP-e NEVER gets their socialist elected president.

these were radical far left paul nutters trying to take over the LA GOP and the GOP fought back.
The paul nutters are not used to that.
they have gotten away with pauhing around the meek old people and seized power !

they want to reek chaos at the gop convention by taking over gop delegates !

Just for the record I’m not a “Paul Nutter” or anything like it. I am just suprised by the GOPs complete lack of cohesion! This incident was ridiculous.

Charles Pierce wrote a nice little blog:

“The police were called in and Herford was hauled off to the hoosegow, allegedly with his artificial hip broken in the scuffle.... Meanwhile, state party leaders held their own convention in one corner of the room with about 30 delegates in attendance. Local media is reporting that the minority convention also elected a slate of delegates, although it is unlikely that the legitimacy of their slate will be recognized by the RNC.

I love the convention being held “in one corner of the room.” It’s so damned Louisiana.”

Yep. Too many people are so blinded in their hate for the latest RINO flavor that they would rather burn the entire GOP down and leave the Democrats in total control than reform the GOP delegate allocation process to put more weight on states which actually deliver electoral votes for the GOP in the fall and less on those with big populations which do not.

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posted on 06/05/2012 5:38:45 AM PDT
by Vigilanteman
(Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)

Then Casie you little NAIVE and UNINFORMED . Most of these PAUL bots are far Left radicals and they have been CRASHING the GOP state delegate meetings and trying to take them OVER ! Its a strategy these radicals used to get Obama elected over Hillary and TEXAS was a prime example in 2008 . Read up on it. PAUL nutter got crushed in LA and has NO delegates in LA but these lefties tried there storm trooper moves and got STOPPED. Why do think they should have let the left take over the LA GOP to be nice ?? Its LA we don't like the LEFT or PAUL nutters.

Get that lie a rest. Paul was crushed in LA ! He has no presence here period. You think letting a bunch of Obama drones posing as Paul supporters into the GOP convention is a great idea. NIce try with that scam. Move on.

Give that lie a rest.
Paul was crushed in LA !
He has no presence here period.
You think letting a bunch of Obama drones posing as Paul supporters into the GOP convention is a great idea.
NIce try with that scam.
Move on.

The Ron Paul camp won their delegates fair and square. The LA GOP needs to ask itself why. Not ignore the results because the current leadership wants a different result. Throwing out legit results is not conservative.

1. Rules Chairman loses election
2. The next day, the State Party Chairman proclaims that old Rules Chairman back in to his position
3. The new Rules Chairman(elected by Paul supporters) objects, State Chairman orders him removed from the floor by police
4. Paul supporters make motion to elect new Party Chairman, succeed in voting in their guy
5. Old State Chairman refuses to leave position
6. Paul supporters turn around seats, begin their own convention
7. Old State Chairman orders police to remove Paul supporters and their elected Chairman

I really don’t see how Paul supporters were “disrupting” the convention, unless showing up and voting in person(where the ballots can’t be fixed) is disruptive.

Here in GA, the state GOP convention had a very strong Ron Paul supporter presence. In general, we agree with these folks on many, many issues. Even the supporters I talked to disagree with Paul on some of his foreign policy extremes.

We need to figure out how to make common ground with a large part of his supporters. We have a lot of it, and they are young, energetic, and anti-Big Government.

Like a good Radical leftist your COMRADES trying to seize control of the LA GOP delegates behind closed doors.

THE real LA GOP voters hate Ron Paul and gave him NO support. He came in Last here in the primary because we are a CLOSED primary so leftists like you can not VOTE ! So like a Good Obam lefty you don't care about the voters you seize power from within ! THanks for verifying who and what you radical Paul bots are all about.

Really? You sound like the typical GOP loser. You know, the idiots losers who have been swallowing the GOP's liberal load for the last few decades.

GO ahead and support the GOP-e's socialist. THEN, if you manage to get him elected go ahead and try to stop the other idiots in the GOP from following his socialist lead...

I really dont know if you guys are naive or just F'ing stupid.

IF you allow the GOP to elect this socialist POS you will have ended whatever meager opposition there was to socialism in the GOP. You will open the flood gates to tyranny.

Its just a damn shame that there are so many who are stuck in the "team" mindset of RNC -vs- DNC. That may have been the case at one time (a long time ago) but now that matchup is meaningless. The battle is Socialism -vs- everyone who wants to be free of socialist tyranny. While the DNC used to be the exclusive home of the socialist tyrant, they have since migrated to the GOP and are in actual leadership positions within the GOP. they are aided by the usefull idiots in the GOP who mindlessly support everything the gop throws at them simply because its not democrat. NO thought at all is given to whether or not the GOP is becoming a tool of the socialists.. Just that its not democrat... Thats all that matters... nothing else...

Its an IDIOTIC mindset and F'ing SUICIDAL strategy. YOU are working FOR the ENEMY! Imagine that... WHAT exactly do you mind numbed romneybots expect to get by supporting a socialist takeover of the GOP? What?! stop Obama? the man? or his party? Or his ideology? if your answer was "the man" or "His party" then YOU are an idiot. If the answer was his ideology then WTF are you doing out of the insane asylum? because your nominating someone with the exact same ideology.

Yikes Ncalburt. You clearly feel strongly about this. 13 replies on this post! I just think it is time now to start laying the groundwork for a united GOP front.

Baby steps! But everyone must play by the rules.

I could not find that killer bumper sticker that I saw here a couple days ago, so I made a low quality new one. My apologies to the original owner. I may indeed be (your words) "NAIVE and UNINFORMED" but when I was 19 years old I voted for Ross Perot and I will never forget that lesson! Ha! Hope you like the graphic. ;)

The will of the LA GOP voters was being run down by these radical leftists ! Paul came in last place in our closed primary. But the radicals who are Dem party operatives have analyzed each state GOP delegate system tried to seize control and overthrow the will of the LA voters using the delegate committee games. These same Obama radicals did the same thing to Hillary and it was real scary in TX Dem delegate meeting . Just goggle it.

Did you read how that Paulbot could care less the LA primary vote results but recited the delegates rules. This is how the left plays games to seize control and the voters be damned !

Paulbots don't care about the LA GOP primary results inwhich where Paul was crushed and due NO delegates .

You seize control from within using well analyed gaps and holes in each state GOP delegate convention.

Who cares what the LA GOP voters wanted . YouPaulbot leftists want power and control so you can cause chaos at the GOP convention in front of the TV cameras. ! I outed the Paulbot state delegates scam so go play the poor victum card elsewhere.

The Ron Paul camp may think running dyed-in-the-wool Paulistas as uncommitted delegates is winning them fair and square. But normal people looking in wouldn't be swayed by the above three examples alone.

Yes, delegate allocation rules need to be overhauled big time.

But the key to that overhaul should be in awarding a lot more delegates to the states which actually deliver electoral votes to the GOP in the fall and a lot less to those which don't.

Not in making the GOP more brownshirt friendly like the Democrats are.

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posted on 06/05/2012 7:01:58 AM PDT
by Vigilanteman
(Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)

Did you read how that Paulbot could care less the LA primary vote results but recited the delegates rules. This is how the left plays games to seize control and the voters be damned !

Yup and see my examples in post #45. Some people think Ron Paul is wonderful just because he ain't Mitt Romney. But his followers have cost Santorum a lot more delegates than they have Romney with these brown shirt tactics. And the object isn't to win for their candidate. That has long gone past the point of no return.

The object is to disrupt the GOP convention for no reason other than making it easier for Obama to win reelection. If the object was to change the allocation rules for the future in the manner I described in post #45, then a lot of us could be sympathetic to the Paulistas here.

But it isn't. And they know it. It's all about their egos.

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posted on 06/05/2012 7:17:24 AM PDT
by Vigilanteman
(Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)

But you have to agree that Villere and friends can't simply ignore elected chairmen they do not like and then use excessive police force to enforce their will.

It makes Romney supporters look like strong-arm elite Rhino thugs and further fractures the party. It makes Paul's people look like champions of conservatism fighting the old Republican establishement.

I want to also mention that after the chaos of the convention, one the Ron Paul people (I can't remember her name) called the Moon Griffon radio show to say they came to the convention in the spirit of reconciliation and the intention of conceding some seats to Romney supporters.

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